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Monday, August 11, 2014

Please, Mr. President, Stay on Vacation

By Alan
Caruba

When the
President spent three of a recent week’s five working days fund raising for the
Democratic Party people, even the press took notice. On August 9 he began
a two-week vacation in a Martha’s Vineyard mansion and I’d like
to suggest that he just stay on vacation for the remainder of his second term.

I grant
you that his vacations do tend to be a tad costly. Last year the Obama family
took vacations to Africa in June and July, and spent Christmas in Honolulu.
According to Air Force documents, the two trips racked up nearly $16 million in
expenses. If the President would just pick someplace to stay and not be getting
on and off Air Force One to fund-raise it could be considered a savings.

Oh, I know
he is still called “the leader of the free world”, but I doubt that the other
leaders of other nations feel that way about him or feel any need to be seen
with him. Few Democratic candidates for office do.

I am
pretty sure that Vladimir Putin doesn’t. Obama has been on the phone to him a
lot lately, getting instructions on what to say and do about Ukraine. The President
sounds concerned about Ukraine, but curiously he has yet to have done anything
about Russia’s intention to absorb it back into its lost empire of satellite
nations. In fairness, Obama did send the Ukrainian army some boxes of ready-to-eat
meals.

﻿My thought
is that, as long as Obama is on vacation things cannot get much worse here at
home, short of a foreign invasion. Oh wait, we are being invaded by a horde of
“undocumented” aliens from south of our border. Most, we’re told, are here to
join their undocumented families who are already here. What is wrong with this
picture?

With
Majority Leader Harry Reid in the Senate, Obama doesn’t have to concern himself
with either signing or vetoing any legislation. I heard that Reid has kept more
than 320 bills that were passed in the House from even being considered in the
Senate and is setting new records for the least amount of bills passed there;
usually only those that must be passed to keep the government running.

There has
been conjecture that Obama does not like being cooped up on the White House.
Wife Michelle made it clear in the first term she thought it was some kind of
prison. That might explain why he spends a lot of time tooling around the
nation and the world on Air Force One. One can understand why he is fund
raising like crazy, especially if he is looking at polls that predict a
calamity for the Democratic Party in the November midterm elections.

My feeling
that he should just stay on vacation for the next two years is based on what he’s done
to us over the past six. Indeed, our grandchildren will be able to name the 44th
President given the fact that they will be paying off the debt he has created
since 2009; $17 trillion and growing.

Then, of
course, there’s Obamacare which a Democrat-controlled House and Senate passed
without a single Republican vote. And we all know how partisan the GOP is,
right?

On the
other hand, millions of people who had perfectly good healthcare insurance
plans lost them and the problems plaguing Obamacare have run from its website
to the path White House lawyers are making as they visit the Supreme Court every
other week trying to justify its various provisions. If the President stays on
vacation maybe people will forget that he told them, “If you like your healthcare
plan, you can keep it.”

If he
stays on vacation, maybe people will forget the billions wasted on Green energy
projects, wind and solar, involving companies that went bankrupt so fast it was
hard to keep up with them. The solar farms that exist roast birds in mid-flight
and the wind farms decapitate them, including eagles that are a protected species
everywhere other than near a wind turbine.

Obama is
not a big fan of affordable energy. He gave the finger to Canada on the
Keystone XL pipeline which would have not cost taxpayers a dime and generated
jobs, plus revenue. He has openly waged war against coal used to produce
electricity even though the U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal. At least he
hasn’t come out against fracking that has helped produce a boom in natural gas.

One thing
Obama would not have to think about while on vacation are the millions of
Americans who are still out of work. Unless, of course, he doesn’t think about
them anyway. Unless, of course, he only thinks of them in terms of how to get
them enrolled in some Big Government giveaway program. The problem with that is
that he’s giving away the money taken from people who do have jobs.

My concern
is that, on an extended vacation, he might begin to obsess about “climate
change”, but then I realized that, for him, that only applies if his golf game
gets rained out.Who could take over while he's on the links? Certainly not Joe Biden. Or John Kerry. Maybe George W. Bush would lend a hand?

So think
about it, Mr. President. You’re taking off two weeks in August. Why not make it
two years?

About Me

I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.